American Reacts to Norwegian Letters (Æ, Ø, and Å)
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As an American I had no idea that Norway actually had 3 vowels that do not exist here in the United States. Today I am very excited to learn about the Norwegian letters Æ, Ø, and Å. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
How you pronounce:
The U in Burn = Ø
The A in War = Å
The A in Ham = Æ
At least it sounds the same to me :P
Agreed, Could be different depending on dialect and such but this feels 100% right for me at least.
@@dinkydamn true.
I endorse this👍🏼
You could also say:
The I in girl = ø
The O in more = å
The A in bad = æ
@@andurk also good picks
the UH in 'uhm' = Ø
the E in 'Everest' = Æ
the O in 'possum' = Å
4:02 "we don't really have any wørds that use the sound ø" quote of the day
Lol
... d-åo-nt really h-æ-ve any w-ø-rds ...
Yes yes yes! Finally you learned about this!
Please react to a video the whole alphabet because "A" and "E" sounds different in Norwegian than English. "Æ" is a sound between those two.
Yes please! 🙏😂
The English “e” is just the Norwegian “i”
That Pål's idea of using those Scribble game letter bricks was genius.
Old English actually used the letter "Æ" but died out in the 1300s. But the "Ä" version is more widespread and is used in multiple European languages to this day, same with the "Ø" or the other version "Ö". The Å is more limited to North Europe but actually also adopted by the Chamorro people(Native to Guam).
Yes, we Danes, Norwegians, Faroese and Icelandic people are taking really good care of the Old English letter Æ / æ, which we got via English / Anglo-Saxon munks after the end of the Viking age - one of them was even called Ælnoth of Canterbury, so it was probably him 😂
Hopefully we shall soon see some recognition for all our efforts from our English speaking friends. 😉
Denmark and Sweden has the same amount of letters and in danish the letter Ø used as a single letter means = island and the letter Å used as a single letter means a small river / stream
yes to this comment... also, "i" and "a", are letters and words, in English...
And Finnish uses the Swedish alphabet and exactly same keyboard layout with computers, but Å isn't used in Finnish language at all. We use just O for that wovel. By the way I have visited Å i Lofoten years ago.
Ö also mean island and Å means stream in Swedish. (The English "Sir" could be spelled "Sör" using the ö in place of the i if English added that letter - which will never happen.)
Ø means island in Norwegian also.
@@jeschinstadand å means stream ... ;)
I once saw a photo of a wallet that said "Dø or Die" which to English speakers just looks like a familiar phrase with "decorated letters"... for Norwegians it basically just gives us a choice to die, just in our language of choice ("Dø" = "Die")
As explained in these commentaries you do indeed have these sounds in English. But you have no letters dedicated ONLY to these sounds. The letter "i" in bird is pronounced like "ø". BUT in the word "Little" the letter "i" is suddenly pronounced like our "i" is always pronounced. And in Icecreame" "i" is suddenly pronounced like "a". Makes it hard for kids to remember. So we just decided that all letters should sound the same as often as possible - which demanded tree extra letters.
...and we don't have any "th" sound which means some simply pronounce it "t" with a mute h.
Also no equivalent for the w in what, which is why some mistakenly pronounce it "vatt" because v and w are the same sound in Swedish/Norwegian.
@@knowledgeisgood9645easy way to remember is that what is pronounced like “oatt” or something
2:03
Remember that we don't just have more letters, many of the letters we share with English have different sounds in Norwegian then in English.
3:21
Neither English nor Norwegian matches the sounds of latin exactly, instead we've matched the letters to the sounds that's closest in our respective languages, not always in the same way.
4:47
Don't worry, you're getting the Å and the Ø right, it's the Æ that you're the furthest apart from right now, but it's not worse then that people would understand you with that sound.
5:16
There you go, you're getting it. 😁
15:03
Don't worry about being perfect. :-)
I really appreciate that you watched this.
Perhaps not worthy of a video on your channel, but perhaps check out the rest of our alphabet on your own?
There's quite a few differences, mostly in nuance with the vowels, but still, and English letters often have more sounds then ours do.
Different than*
Then is used in for instance "now and then".
And this is why Stargåte makes no sense for us. Same with other movies and stuff in english, prentending they are not real letter "Æon flux"
Motorhead
@@yvindteppen6235Motörhead..👹ö
Its kinda hilarious when spelling the letters with those words. They used the letters more for " cool/ exotic " factor 😂
Starriddle
Makes me just think of a star with a quiz
Burn - børn
Morning - Mårning
Bad - bæd
Hi Mr. Walker. I just have to say I really enjoy all of your videos about Norway. Looking forward to them every day. Always puts a smile on my face. I've been following you for quite some time now. Just want to say thank you. Greetings from Norway 🇳🇴 🌞
A = like the "A" in far.
E = like the "E" in seven or menace.
I = like the letter "I" in wind or fix.
O = kinda like the letter "O" in oops, or the last vowel when saying "oh".
U = like the letter "U" in you, or the "O" in to/too.
Y = like the letter "Y" in syllable or abysmal.
Æ = like the "A" in bad.
Ø = like the "U" in run or under.
Å = like the "O" in more or wrong, or kinda like the "au" in because.
There is a video out there abaut how the english alfabeth lost the letter æ (a-e) and other letters.
Good job Tyler! From doubting yourself and questioning the whole thing you went to learn and understand in minutes! Putting that new knowledge to use immediately. You are learning a new culture and language, and doing great! In Sweden the order would be å, ä, ö - but I guess that is because å is sort of new in norweigan and danish, where there before was aa. 💛💙
I never thought about how native English speakers rarely or never deal with other languages. They just need to assume everyone else knows English well enough.
In Europe, the majority of people are at least bilingual. Some even are trilingual. Native tongue as the primary language and most go with English as their secondary language.
Europeans understand that letters are pronounced differently in different languages. (English being of of the weirder ones when it comes to letter pronunciation)
A native English speaker probably never had to wrap their minds around how letters are being pronounced and thus sound differently.
In german we also say A that way. And in german there are Umlaute. Ö, Ü, Ä, St , sp, sch, au, eu,ei, ..so don't worry. Middle European here. I also have no Clue how to pronounce it. For us it sounds cute and also funny. I only say..Ikea Names of Funitures...makes you laugh (cause of different meaning of these Words in german and the pronounciation) so the ø is our
Ö like in Österreich.
I'm so happy you finally made this video about æøå. And you're doing great 👍🏻
You have a word in English that is the exact sound of "Å". When you say "awe", it's pronounced exactly the same 👍
Letter "Y" is worse to pronounce in Norwegian for English native speakers than ÆØÅ, but "Syllable" is one of the few words where the Y is pronounced the same 😉
Slight disagree. Americans pronounce "awe" with an "a" sound. Only Brits and similar accents use the "å" sound.
Also English speakers tend to pronounce it "sillable" or "sullable" depending on accent. Neither reflect the norwegian vowel "y"
@@AuroraNora3 Many Norwegians make pronunciation mistakes like this. and that's a contributing factor to the Norwegian accent when speaking English. Thank you for pointing it out.
@@AuroraNora3 I slightly disagree with you disagreeing 😉 I guess it might depend on US dialect too, but where I lived, they sounded just like that. I consider myself being pretty fluent in American English after living there and working for an American company here in Norway now 😊 not saying you're wrong, but in my experience you're not 100% correct either 😉
Interesting; Here in Sweden we also have three extra vowels; Å,Ä,Ö (å,ä,ö). These correspond to Norwegian Å, Æ and Ø. I wonder why there is difference in the alphabet order. We Swedes have them in order Å,Ä,Ö and the Norwegians Æ, Ø, Å. It seems that it is we Swedes that are odd, in Danish it is like in Norway Æ, Ø, Å.........
I think the explanation is that the Å has been in use much longer in Sweden than in Norway and Denmark. For a long time, the Swedish alphabet ended with Å,Ä,Ö while the Norwegian and Danish ended with Æ,Ø. When Å was finally added, I guess it made sense to put the newest letter at the end.
@@geirsune @magnusemilsson7205 Writing "aa" was the standard before adopting the letter Å. In Norway the change happened in 1917 while Denmark made the switch in 1948. Sweden has used the letter Å in print since 1526.
Bad, mad and plan, makes æ kind of like a, like bæd, mæd and plæn. Learn, burn and turn. Like written by a Norwegian it's like Børn, Lørn and tørn, so it's often like a u, or ea. Corny, story or mourning/morning is like kårny (how we really write that), ståry or mårning. Like the general sounds can sometimes be very different, and I think many foreigners say they think A is pronounced a bit weirdly in Norway
Followup video with the ÆØÅ song.
The English language is heavily influenced by Norwegian language, or gammel norsk (old Norwegian) since most of the English isles was under Norwegian rule at a point in time. And vikings settled there.
The Æ sound is in the word "hat". The Ø sound is in the word "word". The Å sound is in the word "caught".
I can't think of any English word with the Ø sound without it being directly followed by an R, like "bird", "learn", "burn", "merge", squirrel", so it might be hard to imagine the sound without the following R if you are American, but not so much if you are British.
In html, these three characters are written æ, ø and å.
The first 26 letters are identical to the English alphabet, but we hardly ever use C, Q, W and Z, except for imported words and names.
While English speakers say "From A to Z", we say "Fra A til Å", because Å is the last letter in our alphabet, unlike for the Swedish alphabet, which ends with Å, Ä Ö. They are practically pronounced the same, but Swedes write their Æ as Ä and their Ø as Ö. The Danish alphabet is identical to the Norwegian.
You pronounced smør (butter) perfect. With the Norwegian r, English speakers can never pronounce r 😊💖
the oslo r :P
Cool video Tyler:) glad you finally looked into the extra letters:) you did great!
The oldest Nordic/Norwegian dialect (Icelandic) has even more letters that do not represent the same sounds in the Scandinavian languages. The O with a slash through it is replaced with "Öö" and the "Åå" is not used. We also have the old "Þþ" (unvoiced English TH sound) and "Ðð" (English DH sound or voiced TH) has well as "Ææ" (sounds like the I in SILENT and E in EARLY).
The Ö sounds like the English U in GUTS in all the Nordic languages.
Then, adding insult to injury, many regular vowels also have accented forms, namely Áá, Éé, Íí, Óó, Úú and Ýý.
Remember that you also use the letter U to represent the Ö sound in some cases, like the word burn.
wow, you did so good in a short time! Well done!
Gonna refer people to this video next time I get questions about the norwegian letters æ ø å
14:04
Never heard anyone say å instead of elv where I'm from.
Your pronounciations were both clear and articulate even towards the middle. You did great! Greetings from sweden!
Say: "Ash" - Bam! you nailed the Æ sound. :)
This guy pronounce Æ very close to how I would pronounce A.. I am from Sweden and we kind of have the same sounds and alphabet, even if there is a minute difference in sound we have different glyphs. Å is Å in both languages, but norwegian Æ is written Ä in Swedish, and Ø is written Ö in Swedish. The Danish alphabet is the same as the Norwegian. ..
There are variations as to how the same vowel is pronounced even in the same language, so there is a huge amount of "wiggle" here. When we learn Swedish in school they usually say that the vowels have two sounds; One long and one short, and you are supposed to use the short if the vowel is followed by a double consonant. This is bullshit as there are more lengths AND different sounds for the same vowel.
So.. When I talk to English speaking people I often use specific words to exemplify the "basic" sound of the vowels. I don't guarantee this to be perfect because of different dialects of English pronounce the same word differently.. "Å" is pronounced the same as the a in the word "all".. (whereas "a" in Swedish) is pronounced as "a" in British pronunciation of t"After").... ÄÆ would be close to the l,letter "a" in the word "maggot" as pronounced in American movies. ÖØ is pronounced. about the same as the "i" in "bird".. or.. "u" in "turd"..
But as I said; There are different "shades" of all these vowels.
The vowel Ø is actually used in a lot of English words. Some examples are burn and earth. Æ is commonly found in words like mad or names like Sam or Bradley. And Å is pronounced much the same way as the OA in oar or the O in or. Most English speakers I've met have far more trouble learning how we pronounce vowels they are already familiar with like O and U.
[i åa ä e ö] is a sentence I learned whey I was young, it's in a quite strong Swedish dialect.
and would be written correctly as: i ån är en ö. Meaning "in the river is an island"
But there you have all of them in a short sentence to practice. :)
My husband and I are learning Norwegian so this came in handy for us. Much appreciated.
In Germany we use the ä, ö, ü, au, äu, eu, ei, ie and ß similar to letters. But now seeing the Norwegian way it makes much more sense because German words like 'Gebäude' (building(s)) and 'Leute' (people) have an almost equal sound with 'äu' and 'eu' but you always have to remember how to write them correctly. So we need to remember the basic form of these words like 'bauen' (to build) to know it is written with an 'a' so the 'äu' is used and not the 'eu'. just my two cents and cheers
14:06 30 years of living in Norway, first time I hear about "Å" being a "River" and am still confused as to how that letter means "River" when "Elv" is what we call "River" in Norwegian.
Other than that, I would say the entirety of the "Å" when used in English is more for British English pronunciation than American English, or at least I'd assume so, as I'm half American pretty much fluent in American English and speak it on a daily basis, along with being fluent in Norwegian because of my mom bringing me home to Norway when I was 3 years old, and I hear more differences in pronunciation between the Å in the suggested English words with my American pronunciation and Norwegian use of Å, than I hear similarities.
Like the "Alright" example, pronounced in American English doesn't sound at all like the Norwegian Å, but when pronounced in British English it sounds nearly identical.
Aside from the Å, I'd say he's pretty spot on with the Æ and Ø letters and word examples, so this is definitely a good video to learn about these three letters in the Norwegian alphabet.
Mange bekker små gjør en stor å.
Perhaps creek is a better translation than river.
Bekk = tiny «river» 0.25-1 meter wide
Å =small river 1=5 m wide
Elv = river wider than 5 m
This is no exact definition tough.
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish all use å / Å for the "oa" - vowel as in "loan" = lån [loan] / så [so] = saw, and also the open O as in "or".
år [Or] = year,
hår [hOr] = hair,
hård [ D hOr*, N & S hOrd] =hard,
sår [sOr] = sore / wound
så [sO] = so
...
So the Scandinavian letter å really indicates various types of o-sounds rather than a-sounds.
The "e" in "the" is pretty close to the ø - a sort of "oe" vowel.
øre ['oe'r+e] = ear
hør(e) [h'oe'r-e] = hear
føl(e) [f'oe'l-e] = feel
føl [f'oe'l] = foal
hø [h'oe'] = hay
tø [t'oe] = thaw
sø [s'oe'] = lake / (sea)
...
But ø is also used for "oy" or "oi" as in "øje" [oy-e] = eye, "høj" [hoygh] = high / tall -
or the i in "sir" or the u in "furr" - for instance
"først' [first] = "first" & "smør" [smur] = "butter" as in "smear' ( OE smearu = fat, greese, butter ... ! ).
strøm [stroem] = stream / current ( also electrical! )
In Danish the vowel(s) æ / Æ is typically flatter than in Norway - like "ay" / "ai" or even some e's in English.
sæl [sail] = seal (animal)
hæl [hail] = heel
knæ [knai] = knee
pæl [pail] = pole
stjæl(e) [st'yail-e] = steal
sælg(e) [sel-ye] = sell
æg [aig / egg] = egg
næse [nai-se] = nose
bær [ ber(ry)] = berry
bær(e) [ bair-e] = bear ( carry)
nær [nair] = near
stræk(ke) [straik-ke] = stretch
...
Fun fact: In Old English "island" was actually spelled "ea-land" or "eow-land" - or similar variants - , where the first part is actually cognate with the Scandinavian word "ø" ( island). The now mute s in 'island" is a later false influence from French "isle" ( and Latin insula ).
Cat, hat, happy: Æ
First, curt, yearn: Ø
All, born, crow: Å
I personally joke the "uh" is America's favorite "vowel" as everything can morph into one depending on how tame your enunciation is.
I think a video about the differences in our alphabet is soon in order. I remember sitting in English class struggling so hard to replicate the english letters, since our A´s sounds different, or E´s sound different, same with our I´s O´s, and really a whole lot of the letters.
A very good reaction. "Åsome",
You kinda have an ø sound, if you say heard or herd there's sort of an ø in there. Bird also sort of have an ø sound. Even the word word has the ø sound. It's not exactly the same, but it's similar. Norwegian just have and uses letters for the sound, while english makes the o sound in word into an ø sound even though it's spell w-oh-rd. You don't say b-ai-rd, you say børd. Sort of anyways. Like you said yourself, athlete starts with an æ sound, you don't exactly say ay-thlete. Scandinavians just added actual letters for the sounds. Edit: Oh the video gave good examples. Btw. his example of Å for river is extremely rare from my experience. Seems like very old norwegian, but I guess in certain dialects they might still use it?
Yes. And every time he say "but".
Anyway, I don't think he reads the comments.....
The U in Burn is kind of like a Ø
@@ShrekThePimp He does, maybe not mine specifically, but he's responded to comments in his other vidoes.
@@nustaniel men i den Canadiske versjon bruker han et annet etternavn
børd is the wørd
English also has these vowels, it just uses the same letters as for other vowels.
e.g. a in words like 'man', 'can' is the same vowel as æ.
u in words like 'fur', 'pleasure' is the same as ø.
You pronounce the ø very well from the beginning :)
It is nice to see similarities between English and Norwegian, there are more than you think. See 8:19: være is the same as were in English, which is a past tense of to be. Hæ and what are also the same, just get rid of the t. And hår, which is of course the same as hair.
Finally! Been waiting for a reaction to this video
I have seen hand writing from early 1300s where the run alphabet and the latin alphabet were mixed together. And åäö were written with the extra vowel as a small letter just to the right side of the main vowel. Ö was O with a small e on the upper right side.
It's; "Æ", as in bad sad lad
Ø as in bird, first, sir, third, turd and word.
Å as in sorry (a strange word mostly used in Canada and the UK).
You did good, Tyler!👏👏👏
]The letter æ/Æ a and e written together, is in the mid northern dialect the word for me/I "Æ e å me på øl" "I am also in on beers"
The first sound in the title Earl, is Ø, in Swedish that letter is actually Ö instead, but it's the same sound.
I think you did A good job pronouncing ÆØÅ! :D
In the English sentence "bad bird law" you have the correct pronunciation "bæd børd låw"
æ - glasses, ø-bird, å-George. Almost...
oh so interesting to see your reaction to this!
Haha «I am trying to think of an Ø wørd»😂😂😂😂
Good job!!!! Please react to the whole alphabet too because it’s quite different, but you did very good❤
8:52 Hæ is like saying huh, different sounds, but it's not something you write in documents or say in a serious broadcast.
Hva= What.
In Swedish, the Ö was historically an OE that became an O with an E on top of it and then the E was changed to the two dots. And Å was actually the same but with A and O.
If you can pronounce Ø, just lower your jaw while making the ø-sound and you'll notice that the ø-sound will turn into an Å-sound.
The three biggest Scandinavian languages all have 29 letters. A-Z as in English and then Æ Ø Å in Norwegian and Danish, and Ä Ö Å in Swedish with the same sounds. In Norwegian C Q W X Z exists, but are rarely used, especially the last three. Tyler is right, there's much more memorization involved in English than many other languages where pronunciation is much easier to know from the spelling.
Several languages has adapatations to the latin alphabet, not just scandinavia.
Great reaction, Your ö was spot on. The others were a big fail. In Sweden it is åäö.
You should watch the ÆØÅ song. We got ÆØÅ (Size matters) My name are Øivinn btw
YES! FINALY! THANK YOU! now i finaly can realax because now i don't get mad every time you say something wrong in Norwegian😅❤ anyone realate?😅
Og ja, jeg er faktisk Norsk så…
I believe it was the swedish that invented the letter Å. I've heard that in sweden the norm was to write the double A on top of each other rather than in row as in danish/norwegian. So over time the swedish a on top of A and sloppinesh just became a circle above the A. So you will soon pronounce the nordic surnames corretly in USA too :D
Equally important is to learn how we pronounce the other vovels. For example O. In english you use our Å a lot more than you say the Norwegian O. Only word I can think of is the last sound in wow.
It's a ring, not a dot in å. The ring is actually a non-capital o. The Danish use the same letters, by the way. Here in Sweden (and Finland) we do too, but æ looks like ä and ø looks like ö. The two dots were originally a non-capital e, but the printing technology at the time wasn't very good, so when using small fonts and rough paper, two dots were usually what was left of the very small e.
We don't put the letters in the same order as the Norwegians and Danes. Instead of …xyzæøå, we have …xyzåäö.
this is fun! i am Norwegian, but i learned something.
We pronounce every letter, if there is a r at the end do remember to pronounce it.
Smør- rrrrrr. Butter also has the r sound at the end in english as well. Do the same in norwegian. Always pronounce all the letter in norwegian
Tes you have words that uses the sound "ø"
"word", "church", "hurt", "turd" and so on, and so forth
Say the word "turn" out loud ...the u in 'turn' sounds very similar to ø. XD
(Also, say "bad" - the a in that will sound similar to æ, depending slightly on your accent; and "corn" will have the å-sound in it.)
You do have the sounds in English, and especially in American English, but you don't represent them with letters like we do.
Those letters (ä,ö,å) also appear in Finnish and Estonian languages. Estonians have even one more, õ. I know how to pronounce it but I don't know, how to describe it to you. In some Estonian dialects they pronounce it just as ö, so that might help. 🤔😄
"Æ" sound like when you say "After".. like "Æfter" "Ø" sound like when you say "Done".. like "dØne". "Å" sound like when you say "allright".. like "Ållright" yeah something like that.
You did great in saying those lettrrs Tyler, keep at it 😁 Though the dudes example of " hæ " meaning "what" should be using the english " huh " instead. Because the norwegian " hva " is more fitting translation to " what "
Also a frigging shame the latin came and stomped down our usage of the runic alphabeth Futhark! I so wish we could at least make it at start optional to learn+write Norse and the Futhark in early school. Its our heritage for gods sakes😆
you also have rhymes in norway like øre-ear or we can just take a H letter on infront and it become høre- listen or hear ;) those two means orrr you can remove the E letter once ahain and this time adds a S and it will be Sør-south does that mean or you can remove them all and just keep the ør and that means woozy kind of slang to dizzy you also have a T infront of the ør that becomes tør that means dry or tørre that means dare or snør that means snow put on a extra r on the norwegian word snørr and it becomes suddenly in english snot and next time in the us just say Kø that means traffic jam in english lol thats alot of word to a simple word as kø and we have kjøre that is to drive also drive a car uselly... and gjøre that uselly means to do stuff and also insteed of snørr put on a extra E and it becomes snørre its means like a line almost and used in alot of fishing like fiske snørre fish line
Æ as in the middle part of the english word "b-a-d"
Ø is pronounced like the first part of the english word "ea-rly"
Å as in "(New) O-rleans"
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What these lessons often forget to mention is that A in Swedish/Norwegian is pronounced as the a in "about", never as "aye". And O is pronounced "oo" as in look and book, but slightly longer. Add to that "j" is pronounced as an English "y", while "y" in Swedish/Norwegian lacks an perfect equivalent sound in English (can't think of one - maybe someone else can?)
Those differences cause confusion for Scandinavians learning English. Saying "jellow" or "dgellow" when trying to say yellow.
He could have told you that the slash over the O is also an E and the circle above A is the letter O. As adipy8912 explains, the same rule goes for all three combinated letters.
Also in Germany you have 3 letters more than in America ... Ä, Ü, and Ö.
The Ä is a combination of the letters A and E, the Ü is a combination of U and E, and the Ö is a combination of O and E.
Again, the effectiveness of the language is evident - 1 letter instead of 2.
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That video is good, it explains the sound, and compares it to English.
I think you did a great job, once you heard the sounds.
I recommend to checking out Dict CC. It's a dictionary with user contributions, with audio, so you can learn to speak it easier.
0:49 The sounds are easy.
Æ= is used in english like, bad, sad.
You did not pronounce it correctly, but you are using this sound, but Norway has a letter for it.
A sound is max, fax, relax.
Ø = is also used in english, must. lust, bust, crust, girl, bird, you pronounced it correctly at 3:53 .
Keep in mind Å is Oh, yes you said it correctly.
Its interesting how you tried to read the English words without adapting the ÆØÅ sounds.
Like you sometimes read O as an A, or an A as an E.
Basically how you said the letters without adapting them to the different words makes no sense to foringers that has learned english.
Also the letters Æ-Ø-Å look like this when "small": æ-ø-å
(When on a computer. Hand written; the "å" look slightly different, and the "æ" you would probably not recognize if you saw it in a word that was handwritten:)
You should have a look at the music video from Kollektivet: Music Video - ÆØÅ (Size Matters)
Pål wrote: "Many English speaking people try and pronounce Ø from the back of their mouth. But it's actually a sound that comes from the front."
We don't have a WORD with the Ø - sound? The sound is in the WORD itself, Tyler! 😊
Most Germanic languages use Æ/Ø or the more common Ä/Ö, the Å is mainly Nordic. Yes, English, with that truly illogical spelling system could benefit from adopting these letters. Because you use the vowels, they are just camouflaged in a multitude of odd ways. But I guess, a major spelling reform is very unlikely.
I have seen americans using our "Ø" as an O a lot of times, that turns into a lot of funny words when reading the letter correctly :p
The letter Ö (I'm Swedish) If I would spell the word FUTHER in a Swedish way it would be Föther, in this word the U doesn't sound like a U in English. The U in the word UNDO sound like a U but U in FUTHER becomes like an Ö for me.
You have an "Ø" in english , like in the word "turn"; you could write it "TØRN" in Norwegian
Bird, nerd amd learn have the ø sound! 4:04
Ø sounds like it used in the plur meme
As a Norwegian, I struggle with E I A, if I have to write English. Where do I use I or E or should I use A , for example Gay, or Gey, if I were to write that I met a rather cool man, or were to write By to several people, and used By gays, which is correct. So difficulties in language are everywhere. Æ Ø Å is peculiarly Norwegian, but is also used by our neighboring countries Sweden and Denmark, but only Norway and Denmark write it the same, so on my PC I can't even write Æ Ø Å in Swedish because my PC is set up in Norwegian. So if an American were to send a Mail to Norway, he would not find Æ Ø Å on the keyboard. But it is only if he tries to write in Norwegian, if you use Google Translate for example, then they will translate into Norwegian with Æ Ø Å! An elk example: Can we meet south of Ålesund. As you see, the south means SØR to us. And if you add that we can meet at Å. Then it means that we can meet at the river, south of Ålesund. But as I said, I struggle to place A E I correctly, so I have to continue using Google Translate! SORRY!
Attic/Ættic, butter/bøtter, obviously/åbviously
U should hear the song æøå by kollektivet
Why is it weird that Ø looks like O but not that Q looks like O
One thing to note about Norwegian vowels: They are flat, and when you pronounce them, you don't add the "h" sound at the end which people do in English, like you said Æ, but you kept saying æh instead, which in English would be right, but you know
Æ is a pretty good represented words in the way it looks as well, its somewhere in between A and E .. same with Å actually, being somewhat in between A and O
But about the flatness, when we have a word that uses E, when you said være, you said it decently.. except the E at the end wasn't "flat" enough. I'm not sure how to explain it, but its like you shouldn't change the tone on Norwegian vowels while saying them
Note: Å for river is probably right, but we actually say: Elv
A fun fact as well: In Norwegian, Y is _always_ a vowel, not the weird inbetween consonant-vowel that it is English
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Burn and hurry is two words that sounds like "ø". Born sounds like "å". :)
So, your brother (I'm guessing he's your brother) reacted to the Norwegian song Æ, Ø, Å a while back
He should really do all the nine vowels, for you to get this.
A = as in english cAr
E = as in english/american Egg
I = as in fEEling
O = you don't really have that sound in english. You tend to use the Å sound for European O-sounds (Victor Orban, president of Hungary, pronunces his last name with the norwegian "O", whereas you call him "Årban". You have the Norwegian O sound as a diphtong, as in "Over, just drop the "Å" half of that dipthong ;)
U = as in YOU, without the Y first.
Y = as in YOU, without the U last
Æ = as when Obama sais yes we cAn
Ø = as in EArly (like he sais)
Å = almost as in bOring